From: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v3 2/2] net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:33:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250916183305.2808-3-yyyynoom@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250916183305.2808-1-yyyynoom@gmail.com>
The driver did not handle failure of `netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()`.
If the allocation failed, dereferencing `skb->protocol` could lead to a
NULL pointer dereference.
This patch adds proper error handling by falling back to the `else` clause
when the allocation fails.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Tested-on: D-Link DGE-550T Rev-A3
Signed-off-by: Yeounsu Moon <yyyynoom@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c
index faf8a9fc7ed1..cff90417c05c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c
@@ -965,14 +965,11 @@ receive_packet (struct net_device *dev)
struct sk_buff *skb;
/* Small skbuffs for short packets */
- if (pkt_len > copy_thresh) {
- dma_unmap_single(&np->pdev->dev,
- desc_to_dma(desc),
- np->rx_buf_sz,
- DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
- skb_put(skb = np->rx_skbuff[entry], pkt_len);
- np->rx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
- } else if ((skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, pkt_len))) {
+ if (pkt_len <= copy_thresh) {
+ skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, pkt_len);
+ if (!skb)
+ goto fallback_to_normal_path;
+
dma_sync_single_for_cpu(&np->pdev->dev,
desc_to_dma(desc),
np->rx_buf_sz,
@@ -985,6 +982,14 @@ receive_packet (struct net_device *dev)
desc_to_dma(desc),
np->rx_buf_sz,
DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ } else {
+fallback_to_normal_path:
+ dma_unmap_single(&np->pdev->dev,
+ desc_to_dma(desc),
+ np->rx_buf_sz,
+ DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ skb_put(skb = np->rx_skbuff[entry], pkt_len);
+ np->rx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
}
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev);
#if 0
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-16 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-16 18:33 [PATCH net v3 0/2] net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation Yeounsu Moon
2025-09-16 18:33 ` [PATCH net v3 1/2] net: dlink: fix whitespace around function call Yeounsu Moon
2025-09-17 23:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-24 16:38 ` Yeounsu Moon
2025-09-24 23:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-16 18:33 ` Yeounsu Moon [this message]
2025-09-16 19:36 ` [PATCH net v3 2/2] net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure Andrew Lunn
2025-09-17 23:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-24 16:36 ` Yeounsu Moon
2025-09-24 23:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
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